Yesterday I had my P4 out for work taking footage and stills of a job site / building the engineering firm I work for designed. It was a blustery day. According to the weather app on my phone 9mph with 16mph gusts... Marginal for my comfort but I really wanted to wow the brass at work with the results of the flight so I set out with my bird and launched it over the project site. It was windy to be sure but she appeared to be coping well.
During my first manual "waypoint" to orient the camera for an overall shot of site, the DJI Go app crashed. Of course the manner of the crash was quite disturbing as it made it look like the bird had started to fall from the air based on the appearance of the remains of the app on the display.
Thanks to many hours of reading on here, I knew that by remaining calm and simply looking at the status light on my controller, I could tell I was still connected to the aircraft and that it was presumably still hovering right where I left it when I took my hands off the sticks. I initiated a manual RTH just to be safe and bring it into a safe area while I restarted the app. About the time I was able to hear my bird coming home to me I got the app reconnected and resumed what turned out to be an uneventful remainder of the flight. Unless you consider limping the gimble from hard cornering and yawing at the same time and event. LOL
The point of the post is simple. These are VERY intelligent machines if you know how to use them and understand the fail safe functions. You can trust your bird to do what it is supposed to do, however it's imperative to keep in mind that it will do EXACTLY what you tell it to. Know your RTH altitude settings and how that they may need to be changed based on your flight location. Ensure that you have gotten confirmation of RTH home point etc.
I've had may heart stopping moments over my many flights, only to find that my bird had me covered and did what it was supposed to. Sometimes these things are smarter than we are at any given moment.
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During my first manual "waypoint" to orient the camera for an overall shot of site, the DJI Go app crashed. Of course the manner of the crash was quite disturbing as it made it look like the bird had started to fall from the air based on the appearance of the remains of the app on the display.
Thanks to many hours of reading on here, I knew that by remaining calm and simply looking at the status light on my controller, I could tell I was still connected to the aircraft and that it was presumably still hovering right where I left it when I took my hands off the sticks. I initiated a manual RTH just to be safe and bring it into a safe area while I restarted the app. About the time I was able to hear my bird coming home to me I got the app reconnected and resumed what turned out to be an uneventful remainder of the flight. Unless you consider limping the gimble from hard cornering and yawing at the same time and event. LOL
The point of the post is simple. These are VERY intelligent machines if you know how to use them and understand the fail safe functions. You can trust your bird to do what it is supposed to do, however it's imperative to keep in mind that it will do EXACTLY what you tell it to. Know your RTH altitude settings and how that they may need to be changed based on your flight location. Ensure that you have gotten confirmation of RTH home point etc.
I've had may heart stopping moments over my many flights, only to find that my bird had me covered and did what it was supposed to. Sometimes these things are smarter than we are at any given moment.
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